Innovations in Mass Timber: Sequestering Carbon with Style in Commercial Buildings

Through architectural photography, technical diagrams, and expert prose, this book explores the environmental benefits as well as stylish and innovative uses of mass timber in non-residential buildings. Prized for its ability to sequester carbon, mass timber, including cross-laminated timbers, glulam beams, and laminated veneer lumber, is entering a critical second phase of its development as a beneficial and stylish building material for nonresidential buildings. Join award-winning author Boyce Thompson on a global tour of 16 of the most innovative and stylish projects made with mass timber. Content includes: . Projects such as the intricate Swatch headquarters in Switzerland, the world’s tallest mass timber building in Milwaukee, WI, and a fairytale experience at the Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Denmark . Sidebars on carbon sequestration, moisture control, and acoustic properties of mass timber . Information on how software and computer-controlled robotic saws work with wood’s malleability to revolutionize millwork . Details on how mass timber maximizes forest yields by utilizing small-diameter trees that might otherwise be wasted . The benefits of how quickly and more accurately mass timber buildings go together with less waste and less neighborhood noise AUTHOR: Boyce Thompson is the author of five works of non-fiction, including Lincoln’s Lost Colony: The Black Emigration Scheme of Bernard Kock, published in 2023 by McFarland. The book tells the quiet, bloody history of a New Orleans’ entrepreneur’s attempt to establish a cotton plantation on a deserted Haitian island during The Civil War. Thompson is also the author of our books on residential design and construction. His latest, The Forever Home, outlines a method of designing and building homes to last a lifetime. It is based on interviews with three dozen owners of new and recently remodeled homes done during the pandemic. The book lays out a method for cost efficiently designing and building homes to last a lifetime. SELLING POINTS: . Covers 16 nonresidential, mass timber buildings from Europe, Australia, and the United States . An ideal book for anyone interested in design, green building, construction, and architecture . Featured architects include Japanese master Shigeru Ban, who designed the sprawling Swatch headquarters building in Switzerland 146 colour images

Format: Hardback
Pages: 224
Imprint: SCHIFFER PUBNS US
Publication date: 28/04/2024